The Paper's reporter Pan Yu
"I had a dream many years ago that one day I could sit down and watch my performance by myself, and today we did." On October 26th, the documentary film "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" was screened in advance at the Shanghai Yihai Theater. At the end of the film, Wang Peiyu, the actor of Cheng Bao and a Peking Opera actor, had a warm and touching exchange with the audience.
Poster of "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans"
At the screening scene, Wang Peiyu and other actors and audiences in the play watched their performances on the big screen together, and she said with some excitement: "We feel that all of us who came here today can spend more than an hour together and watch a traditional bone old drama with a history of 150 years, which is the dignity of our Peking Opera people and all the audiences present." I think we can witness a new era of Peking Opera, which is happening while it is going on. Watching a 150-year-old bone play in a movie theater, I think this experience is very wonderful, very avant-garde. ”
It is reported that the film will be officially released in major theaters across the country from October 28. At present, the producer has reached a scheduling intention with Wanda, Broadway, Emperor, Lumiere, Dadi, CGV, UME Cinema Line and Shanghai Art Film Alliance, etc., to supply films to 500 cinemas, hoping to give audiences across the country the opportunity to see this Peking Opera classic.
The documentary film "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" is a pioneering attempt at Chinese opera, which is a high-definition stage image recorded according to the film's production specifications. In addition to reproducing the stage performance scene, the film also captured the precious pictures of the rehearsal moments, and through the form of pre-screening interviews, interviewed a number of Peking Opera artists including Chi Jinsheng, Liu Lianqun and Chai Junwei, and introduced excellent traditional artistic ideas to many audiences who approached Peking Opera for the first time.
Stills from the show
The performance scene recorded in this film is the Peking Opera "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans", a traditional bone old drama, which is adapted from the classical Chinese drama "The Orphan of Zhao". On September 8, 1947, the legend of Liyuan Meng Xiaodong's "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" was staged in the China Grand Theatre, becoming a song of "Guangling Absolute Sound" for the farewell stage of the "Winter Emperor". 71 years later, on September 8, 2018, Peking Opera actor Wang Peiyu took to the same stage to reproduce the "Winter Emperor" singing voice and recreate this version of "Search for Orphans and Save Orphans".
It is this unique "replica" performance filmed in the film. Wang Peiyu said that the filming of this documentary film originated from his friend and the proposal of the film's director Ma Qian, "At that time, we were doing a series of performances of bone old dramas, Ma Qian said, you can learn from the British National Theatre live NTLIVE such a form to record a play that you think you have the most experience and experience." ”
In Wang Peiyu's view, it is very meaningful to be able to record the performance of September 8, 2018 into this movie, "because 71 years ago this day was Mr. Meng Xiaodong who performed the same play at the same time and in the same place, and I, as the 4th generation of the Yu (Shuyan) school, this performance is not only a tribute to the traditional bone old drama with a history of more than 150 years, a tribute to traditional Peking Opera, but also a tribute to our predecessor artists who have fought in the Peking Opera industry for 200 years, paying tribute to Yu Shuyan and Meng Xiaodong. At the same time, it also pays tribute to the Chinese grand theater with a deep imprint of Peking Opera. ”
After the filming scene, the film was post-processed by the filming team led by director Ma Qian and the production team of Tianjin Radio and Television Station, and a large number of related interviews were added, which also made the connotation of this documentary film more abundant and increased the watchability. Because it was recorded live, some minor imperfections of the day's performance were also recorded by video. But Wang Peiyu feels that this is also the charm and significance of documentary films.
Meet and greet
"On September 8, 2018, this more than one-hour "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" will be frozen forever. Including the 'grayscale' in the film, I think the post-production team has done a good job of handling, repairing the old as old, and wanting this taste. Because we are not new, why should we make up a new one, we have our old decency, which is the aesthetic we want to pursue, even if it is flawed. ”
The documentary film "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" is jointly produced by Shanghai Yuchao Culture, Beijing Ozhewei Culture and Shanghai Ximeng Culture. Among them, Beijing Ozhewei Culture has been committed to introducing foreign "new scene" high-definition video screenings to present the best works on the world stage today to domestic audiences, and the documentary film "Peking Opera Search for Orphans and Orphans" is the first High-definition image of Chinese opera in "New Scene".
"Peking Opera has reached an equally important moment in its inheritance and dissemination today. This documentary film also offers new possibilities for the contemporary dissemination of Peking Opera." Inside and outside the film screening, Wang Peiyu emphasized her views. As for the film to be screened nationwide and even worldwide, she especially sighed: "In today's era when everyone watches traffic movies and sees a lot of big movies with capital resources, we can have a place, and I think this is a particularly happy thing." ”
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